Microsoft has published results for the second quarter of 2017 financial year. In the reporting period, revenue increased by 1.2% in annual comparison to $24,09 billion, profit increased 3.6% to $5.2 billion.

Facebook added a new section of Stories in their applications for iOS and Android – an analogue of Instagram Stories. While it is only available in Ireland, but in the coming months will appear around the world.

Team VK announced that from today, video ads into their news feeds will start to run automatically. Playback of video begins when more than half of the video is displayed on the screen. For advertisers, the system automatically predicting the quality of views and video analytics, including statistics of the views by quartile (25% share in video).